A telepathic concert of PUTIF with Jennifer Walshe, Tomomi Adachi and Hardi Kurda. Concert at June 19th 2020. 8:00-8:03 pm (CET) Meditation, please find us and tune telepathically. 8:03-8:13 pm (CET) Improvisation.
This is not online event, no streaming, nor physical concert. It is metaphysical. The People’s United Telepathic Improvisation Front (Tomomi Adachi & Jennifer Walshe) join forces with Hardi Kurda to give a telepathic performance inspired by John Heartfield’s work.
Heartfield’s pioneering work in collage encourages the viewer to make connections between radically different visual materials, bringing disparate elements into unity. His collaborations with Bertolt Brecht place him at the forefront of performance in the 20th century. Indeed, Heartfield’s late arrival to a performance of one of Brecht’s plays resulted in Brecht stopping the performance and asking the audience to vote on whether Heartfield should be allowed to work on the set, leading to the development of Brecht’s Verfremdungseffekt, and changing completely the concept of the audience in theatre. This performance works toward a similar goal, but with sound. The three musicians will perform in their homes, without being able to hear each other in the traditional sense - instead they will make telepathic contact during the performance, without any knowledge of what is happening other than the time and a score made by Hardi Kurda from a Kurdish carpet in which it happens. Each musician makes a recording of their performance. After the performance, the three recordings are collaged together to reveal what actually transpired, and the results are shared online. The public are invited to tune in to the performance telepathically, to make notes about what they “hear” and share these with the performers. concept: Julia Gerlach, secretary of the section music. Reflections by the audience welcome as facebook comments. Publication of the music collage online on 21 Jun 2020, 8 pm